Google Ads Scraper With Political Ad Spend

Scrape Google Ads Transparency Centre creatives for any advertiser — and, for ads Google has classified as election advertising, pull the real published impression ranges and spend ranges per country, not a placeholder. This is a Google Ads Transparency scraper built specifically for political ad spend research, campaign-finance analysis, and election-integrity monitoring, where "how much did this election ad cost, and how many people saw it" is the actual question.

What it does

Google's own Ads Transparency Centre publishes real impression and spend ranges for ads declared as election advertising — but only when the request is made through its election-ads topic filter. A plain advertiser-page scrape never sees that data. This actor makes that request correctly and returns:

• Every ad creative for an advertiser (or advertiser ID), same as a standard Google Ads Transparency scraper
• Real impression ranges (lower/upper bound) per ad and per country, when available
• Real spend ranges in the advertiser's local currency, per ad and per country
• How many days each ad has run (daysShown), and which country registers declared it an election ad
• The Search / YouTube / Shopping split of impressions, where Google publishes it
• Country/format filters so you can scope a run to one region or one ad format

Use cases

• Election-integrity and campaign-finance research — who is funding political ads in a given country, and roughly how much
• Journalism — sourcing real, Google-published spend figures for election-ad coverage instead of estimates
• Political ad monitoring — tracking a candidate's or PAC's Google ad spend and reach over time
• Ad-library / ad-transparency analysis — comparing declared election-ad activity across advertisers or countries
• Academic research on digital political advertising and disclosure

Input

{
  "startUrls": ["AR14800298542844870657"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "electionAdsOnly": true,
  "adRegions": ["US"],
  "includeSpendAndImpressions": true,
  "adFormat": "ALL",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array	Yes	Google Ads Transparency profile URLs or advertiser IDs (AR...)
maxItems	integer	No	Max ad creatives to collect per advertiser (1–10000, default 10)
electionAdsOnly	boolean	No	Search Google's election-ads topic instead of all ads — the switch that makes real spend/impression numbers appear at all (default true)
adRegions	array	No	Two-letter country codes of the election-ad registers to read, e.g. US, GB, BR, IN, AU (default ["US"])
includeSpendAndImpressions	boolean	No	Make one extra call per ad to fetch real per-country impression range, spend range, and platform split (default true)
adFormat	string	No	ALL, TEXT, IMAGE, or VIDEO — applied by Google itself (default ALL)
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify proxy configuration

Important: the real spend and impression figures exist only for ads Google has classified as election advertising. Pointing this actor at a non-political brand with electionAdsOnly on will correctly return zero rows — that's Google's own restriction, not a bug. Turn electionAdsOnly off to get the standard all-topics creative listing (no spend/impressions).

Output

{
  "adLibraryUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR14800298542844870657/creative/CR07489182929856233473",
  "advertiserId": "AR14800298542844870657",
  "advertiserName": "COOPER FOR NORTH CAROLINA",
  "creativeId": "CR07489182929856233473",
  "isElectionAd": true,
  "format": "TEXT",
  "adFormatName": "TEXT",
  "creativeRegions": ["Puerto Rico", "United States of America"],
  "electionCountryCodes": ["US"],
  "daysShown": 14,
  "firstShown": "2026-07-17",
  "lastShown": "2026-07-30T10:30:45Z",
  "impressionsLowerBound": 30000,
  "impressionsUpperBound": 35000,
  "spendLowerBound": 8000,
  "spendUpperBound": 9000,
  "spendCurrency": "USD",
  "spendByCountry": [
    { "countryCode": "US", "currency": "USD", "lowerBound": 8000, "upperBound": 9000 }
  ],
  "regionStats": [
    {
      "regionCode": "US",
      "regionName": "United States of America",
      "firstShown": "2026-07-17",
      "lastShown": "2026-07-30",
      "impressions": { "lowerBound": 30000, "upperBound": 35000 },
      "platformBreakdown": []
    }
  ],
  "previewUrl": "https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/ads/preview/content.js?...",
  "inlineCreativeHtml": null,
  "creativeVariantUrls": ["https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/ads/preview/content.js?..."]
}

Field	Type	Description
adLibraryUrl	string	Direct link to the ad on Google Ads Transparency
advertiserId / advertiserName	string	Advertiser identity
creativeId	string	Unique creative identifier
isElectionAd	boolean	Whether this row came from an election-ads-topic search
format / adFormatName	string	Ad format (format mirrors the base actor's own field; adFormatName is the accurate TEXT/IMAGE/VIDEO label)
creativeRegions	array	Real country names the ad ran in (from Google's own per-ad detail record)
electionCountryCodes	array	Election registers the ad was declared in
daysShown	integer	Number of days Google reports the ad as having run
firstShown / lastShown	string	First/last shown dates
impressionsLowerBound / impressionsUpperBound	integer or null	Real published impression range — null when Google hasn't published a bound, never a fake 0
spendLowerBound / spendUpperBound / spendCurrency	integer / string or null	Real published spend range in the advertiser's own local currency — amounts are never converted or summed across currencies
spendByCountry	array	Per-country spend breakdown
regionStats	array	Per-country impression range, dates, and Search/YouTube/Shopping split where published
previewUrl / inlineCreativeHtml / creativeVariantUrls	string/string/array	Ad creative preview links and inline HTML, when Google's response carries them

Honest limits

• Spend and impression data exists only for declared election ads — this is Google's own publishing rule, not a limitation of this actor.
• Amounts are in the register's own local currency and are never converted or totalled across currencies.
• A bound can be one-sided (upper present, lower absent) — read a missing bound as "under Google's publishing threshold," not as zero.
• This actor reads Google's public, unauthenticated Ads Transparency Centre — no login, no API key, no private targeting data.

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